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ˈnight-lamp
[f. night n. + lamp n.]
A lamp which is kept burning during the night, esp. in a bedroom.
1821Scott Kenilw. xxxii, Varney..placed a massive silver night-lamp..on a marble table which stood close by the head of the couch. 1842Tennyson Locksley Hall 80 Thou art staring at the wall, Where the dying night-lamp flickers. 1856Orr's Circ. Sci., Pract. Chem. 494 The Common Floating Night-lamp..is nothing more than a small cup of metal pierced in the middle with a small glass tube.
b. Allusively, with reference to night-studies.
1895in Anna Stoddart J. S. Blackie II. 234 He often warned us all against over-work and the night-lamp. |